Create Your Own Comics - Everything You Need to Know

The only guide you'll ever need to making your very own cool comics. Create Your Own Comics is packed with story ideas, drawing tips, creative prompts and loads of fun suggestions to start you off on your way to becoming a comic master.

This isn't just page after page of blank comic pages. It's a comprehensive guide to what makes comics work, with templates to help you find your way and hints for getting the best out of your own story ideas.

Learn the basics of common comic elements and how to use them, including panels, speech bubbles, splash pages and sound effects. Find out how to create comics in different styles and genres, from funny to scary and superheroes to monsters. Once you feel you're a comic master, practise your new skills by using the story generator tools to get your imagination pumping and come up with unique stories of your very own.

About the author

Born in 1976 in Sabadell, a city near Barcelona (Spain), Alex Lopez has over 15 years of experience as a professional illustrator. His work and books have been published in many countries including USA, UK, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Turkey. Alex has also created illustrations for educational books, marketing and video games, mostly for children and teenagers. Alex is often asked what his secret is. His answer is simple: listening to music and eating chocolate.Ned Hartley writes comics and books for children, and currently writes the Bananaman stories that appear in the Beano every week. Ned has written lots of books including the best-selling Marvel Origins: Spider-Man, The Ladybird Big Book of Dead Things, Together We Can, Great Lives: Albert Einstein, Marvel: the Science of Superheroes, the Marvel Museum and loads more, many of them about superheroes and comics. He's also written comics for 2000AD, Monster Fun and Wallace & Gromit Comics. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

Summary

Create Your Own Comics is packed with story ideas, drawing tips, creative prompts and loads of fun suggestions to start you off on your way to becoming a comic master.

Product details

• Authors: Ned Hartley
• Assisted by: Alex Lopez (Illustration), Lopez Alex (Illustration)
• Publisher: Michael O'Mara Publications
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 10
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 29.01.2026
• EAN: 9781916763081
• ISBN: 978-1-916763-08-1
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 280 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 398 g
• Illustrations: Full colour illustrations
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; Guides > Hobby, home > Painting, drawing, colour; Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Art / Drawing, ART / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Art / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Humor / Comic Strips & Cartoons, Drawing & drawings, Interest age: from c 10 years, Creative writing and creative writing guides, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art and artists, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General, Drawing and drawings